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Alec Chalmers is the Course Leader for the new BA (Hons) Games Art and BA (Hons) Games Design courses here at Leeds Arts University in the UK. Alec is also involved with improving game education nationally as an external examiner at 4 institutions across 3 different levels of post-secondary education. Alec’s specialism is in environment design at both a concept level and an environment art production level, and he has contributed to developing numerous multi-platform titles such as Spirit of the North 2, Ice Age: Scrat’s Nutty Adventure and Sniper Elite VR in the roles of both a game artist and a concept artist.